November 16
The United Nations has designated this day as an
International Day for Tolerance. So...Tolerate the intolerant.
There are
45 days remaining in 2016.
There are
38 days until Christmas.
Events
1272 – While traveling during the
Ninth Crusade (or Eighth),
Prince Edward becomes King of England upon
Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.
1776 – American Revolutionary War:
British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1793 – French Revolution: Ninety anti-republican Catholic priests are
executed by drowning at Nantes.
1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader
William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the
Santa Fe Trail.
1849 – A Russian court sentences writer
Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1852 – The English astronomer
John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid
22 Kalliope.
1855 –
David Livingstone becomes the first European to see
Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1904 – English engineer
John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the
thermionic valve (the vacuum tube).
1907 –
Indian Territory and
Oklahoma Territory join to form
Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1914 – The
Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1938 –
LSD is first synthesized by
Albert Hofmann from
ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
1940 – World War II: In response to
the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force
bombs Hamburg.
1940 – New York City's "Mad Bomber"
George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by
Consolidated Edison.
1945 –
UNESCO is founded.
1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the
Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches
Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1974 – The
Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster
Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.
1990 – Pop group
Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the
Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1992 – The
Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
2002 - Texan multi-billionaire
David Bonderman hired
The Rolling Stones to play at his 60th birthday party held at the
Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. The bands fee was £4.4m.
Births
42 BC – Tiberius; 1873 – W. C. Handy♪ ♫; 1905 – Eddie Condon♪ ♫(jazz banjoist, yes,
jazz banjo); 1907 – Burgess Meredith; 1916 – Daws Butler (voice(s) of Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound, et al); 1928 – Clu Gulager; 1942 – Joanna Pettet; 1956 – Terry Labonte

; 1958 – Marg Helgenberger (
China Beach, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation); 1959 – Corey Pavin; 1961 – Frank Bruno

; 1961 – Chris Pitman

(Guns N' Roses, Tool); 1962 – Mani

(Stone Roses); 1962 – Josh Silver

(Type O Negative); 1964 – Diana Krall

; 1966 – Dave Kushner

(Velvet Revolver, Danzig, Jane's Addiction); Christian "Flake" Lorenz

(Rammstein); 1967 – Lisa Bonet; 1970 – Martha Plimpton; 1977 – Maggie Gyllenhaal (big sis to Jake); 1984 – Gemma Atkinson
Deaths
1272 – Henry III of England; 1806 – Moses Cleaveland (namesake of Cleveland, OH); 1885 – Louis Riel; 1950 – Bob Smith (co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous); 1960 – Clark Gable (Didn't give a
damn.); 1961 – Sam Rayburn; 2005 – Ralph Edwards; 2009 – Edward Woodward (
Breaker Morant, The Equalizer); 2015 – David Canary (
All My Children, Bonanza)